Using R&D credits to reduce payroll taxes: An overlooked opportunity for startups
This article discusses who qualifies to take the credit, how to make the election, the calculation and allocation of the credit, and how to report it.
Partnerships
A uniform state approach to the new federal partnership audit regime
Broad state adoption of the model statute developed by the AICPA in partnership with other major stakeholders will provide greater uniformity and increased compliance.
Lessee cannot take deduction for facade easement contribution
Because facade easements must be protected in perpetuity, a leaseholder was not allowed to claim a deduction for contributing an easement to a not-for- profit preservation corporation.
Prop. regs. restore allocation of partnership liabilities in disguised sales
Disguised sale occurs when a partner(s) engages in a transaction that, when viewed together with a partnership, involve property and are characterized as the sale or exchange of property.
Revisiting the application of Sec. 280G on partnerships and LLCs
Depending on how a taxpayer’s ownership is structured, the sale of a partnership interest can have a Sec. 280G impact on partners or members that are C corporations.
Loans between members and LLCs
A loan from an LLC member to the LLC must be structured carefully to ensure it is respected as bona fide debt.
Rules determine who can be a partnership representative under new audit regime
The IRS finalized proposed regulations under Sec. 6223 on the procedures for designating a partnership representative and the authority of the partnership representative under the centralized partnership audit regime.
Filing ‘optional’ partnership return costly
Married couples in business together can elect qualified joint venture status to avoid partnership filing requirements.
IRS withdraws partnership regs. on disguised sales
The IRS announced that it was withdrawing temporary regulations on the treatment of partnership liabilities for disguised-sale purposes and proposing to reinstate the old rules.
Potential pitfalls of state income tax incentives for passthroughs
The benefit of a state income tax credit, if it is earned in a state where the owner is not resident, is often lost.
Final regs. govern who can be a partnership representative
The IRS finalized proposed regulations under Sec. 6223 on the procedures for designating a partnership representative and the authority of the partnership representative under the centralized partnership audit regime.
Lender Management LLC and its impact on investment partnerships
Lender Management contended that its activities met the test for an active trade or business under guidelines.
Allocating debt when a disregarded entity is a partner
The net value rule determines the extent to which a partner who owns a partnership interest through a disregarded entity bears the economic risk of loss for a partnership recourse liability.
Withholding requirement on sale of partnership interest by foreign partners under the TCJA
This discussion gives a historical perspective of the treatment of the sale of a partnership interest and the changes enacted as part of the TCJA.
AICPA recommends simplified adjustment procedure in centralized partnership audits
The IRS should provide a simplified adjustment procedure for partnership audits, the AICPA recommended in a letter to the IRS Chief Counsel’s Office.
IRS issues final regs. on electing out of centralized partnership audit regime
The regulations’ definition of an ‘eligible partner’ is key to determining whether a partnership can elect out of the centralized partnership audit regime.
A trap for the unwary: Sec. 743 in tiered partnerships
A taxpayer who pays the full FMV for a partnership interest that has forward Sec. 704(c) property associated with it and who subsequently contributes it to another partnership may not receive the expected tax deductions.
Disguised-sale partnership regs. withdrawn
The IRS announced that it was withdrawing temporary regulations on the treatment of partnership liabilities for disguised-sale purposes and proposing to reinstate the old rules.
Allocating LLC recourse debts
Regulations remove basis benefit for an LLC member when circumstances indicate a plan to circumvent or avoid debt payment obligation.
Appropriations act tax provisions include IRS funding and audit rules
The $1.3 trillion spending bill passed by Congress includes IRS funding and tax-related technical corrections, including changes to the centralized partnership audit regime.
